Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Reviews

01 February 1981 Comments Reviews The Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds. Second edition (revised). By P. A. D. Hollom. Witherby, London, 1980. 190 pages; one black-and-white and 55 colour plates; several line-drawings. £12.00.  The first edition (published in 1960) ...
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Recent reports

01 February 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records The dates in this report refer to November unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first part of the month was dominated by a high-pressure system. Until Bth, the anticyclone ...
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News and comment

01 February 1981 Comments News and comment European wildlife and natural habitats The Netherlands and Liechtenstein have become the first countries to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, which was signed in Berne ...
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Requests

01 February 1981 Comments Editorials Rare issues of 'BB' Stocks of the issues for October 1978. October 1979. November 1979 and May 1980 have run out. Anyone who has a copy which is not needed and who returns it to us will be doing BB (and potential purchasers of the complete volu...
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